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The top 20% kids who are in aap will have plenty of other high performers in their class in a school district with no aap. Cmon. Think. [/quote]
In theory, I agree with you.  In practice, those top 20% will be ignored in a regular classroom.  Being among 5 other high performers in your 28-30 person classroom would be fine if your group got 20% of the teacher's time.  Instead, the high performers will see the teacher for maybe 30-60 minutes per MONTH out of the 2 hours of language arts block the teacher has every day.  Likewise, for group projects, the teacher will never group the high performers together so they can really delve deeper into their projects.  Instead, each one will be shackled to low performers or kids who don't care about school, and they'll all have to try to do the entire project while some other kid is sabotaging the slides.

AAP is honestly pretty ludicrous, but the FCPS gen ed model is terrible, too.  Providing any semblance of a challenge for bright gen ed kids is clearly not a priority for FCPS.  [/quote]

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